Hampton Roads

Hampton Roads is the name for the Norfolk-Virginia Beach metropolitan area in southeastern Virginia. Hampton Roads is home to the major United States Navy, Air Force and Army bases. It also is home to NASA and Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. The area is also full of historical landmarks and miles of beaches.

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Motorists in north Newport News traveling along part of Warwick Boulevard Tuesday morning should plan for delays as crews make emergency repairs to a sewer pipeline.
The repairs will take place on the southbound lanes of Warwick Boulevard at Woodhaven...

Following is a rundown of contracts awarded to Hampton Roads defense contractors in the past several weeks, according to the Defense Department.
Navy
Submarine valves: Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News, has been awarded a $7.87 million...

Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Virginia Beach, is a man with a mission when it comes to talking up developing new energy sources off the Virginia coast -- or, as he put it to a Peninsula Chamber of Commerce gathering today: "You pull the string on my back...

As defense dollars dry up, some Hampton Roads companies have had to adapt to find more work in the private sector, The Virginian-Pilot reports.
Read how those firms did it here in the full Pilot story.

More people than ever are avoiding driving to certain businesses or neighboring cities due to traffic.
That's the conclusion of the 2014 Life in Hampton Roads survey, compiled by the Old Dominion Social Science Research Center.
According to the...

NEWPORT NEWS -- Nansemond-Suffolk Academy placed third and Hampton Roads Academy fourth in the Tidewater Conference of Independent Schools girls tennis tournament at Huntington Park.
Both teams will have more than a week to prepare for the Virginia...

Two Daily Press editors will return to Hampton Roads soon after spending a week in Rivne, Ukraine.
Daily Press Assigning Editor Ryan Gilchrest and Sports Editor Andi Petrini were in Ukraine as part of an international media partnership program with Rivne...

Hampton Police are warning people on Twitter that Mellen Street and Willard Avenue will both be closed between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday due to construction.
Lane closures and a couple of brief full-direction closures on I-64 near Mercury...

Bryan Hart ran for three touchdowns and threw a scoring pass as Hampton Roads Academy (2-6), beset by recent injuries, bounced back for a 34-18 home win Friday night against Isle of Wight Academy.
The loss knocked the Chargers (4-5) from playoff...

No foreigner was more beloved by the citizens of the early United States than the Marquis de Lafayette, the young French nobleman who won their hearts with his bravery and sacrifice during the Revolution, then stoked that affection still more with his...

NEWPORT NEWS -- As they did in the regular season, Cape Henry Collegiate and Norfolk Academy dominated the early rounds of the Tidewater Conference of Independent Schools girls tennis tournament at Huntington Park.Neither team lost a match in the first...

Boys soccer:**Williamsburg Christian Academy reached the Metro Conference tournament final with a 2-0 home victory Thursday over Atlantic Shores.
WCA will play for the title at 7 p.m. Saturday at top-seeded Portsmouth Christian, which ousted Denbigh...

In the minds of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, nothing is sacred. Not even religion. Especially not religion.
So when Parker and Stone – the creators of TV's brilliant and iconoclastic cartoon "South Park" – decided to do a stage musical about The...

October is Virginia Pumpkin Month, courtesy of a proclamation by the governor. So we need to get out there and support those pumpkins.
"Pumpkin growers report an abundant crop, ready for carving and cooking," says Sarah Lovejoy Pennington, a...

Last winter's severe weather prompted Hampton Roads Transit to develop a series of emergency snow routes for its bus service.
The 11 emergency routes will be used if sustained accumulated snowfall exceeds 6 inches and forces a severe reduction in...

The Virginia National Guard breaks ground on a new training facility at Camp Pendleton in Virginia Beach at 10 a.m. Friday.
The first of two phases of construction includes two 70-feet-by-120-feet steel frame tensioned fabric structures and two...